I so wanted to march, to feel like I could be part of a community working together to change in this most disturbing of times. I just couldn’t physically do it but was so happy to be able to participate in some way. Almost 5 years ago I became very sick – first with kidney failure, chronic kidney disease, and then an autoimmune inflammatory arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis, along with a host of other problems including multiple pulmonary emboli. I am of course very fearful about what will happen when the ACA is repealed.